This Shark Lived Through 400 Years of History

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]I think.

[00:00:02]The 400-year-old shark scientists found a Greenland shark that's been alive since before America existed. This single shark has lived for over 400 years. We're talking older than the United States, older than most countries on Earth. Researchers named her and tracked her DNA. She was born around 1610. That means she was already 100 years old when the American Revolution happened. She's still alive today swimming in the Arctic Ocean completely unbothered while humans build empires and tear them down. This shark just keeps swimming.

[00:00:32]One animal, four centuries, mind-blown.

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